Anyone want to start a new group?

We can call it "My August'09er is not particularly exceptional and I am not the amazing parent I thought I'd be"

We can talk about things like how our child isn't exactly behind but certainly isn't the first to hit his/her milestones. Topics can range from how to handle your friends whose child is talking in sentences while yours still doesn't say mama consistently to what to do when people in the grocery glare at you because your child is ALWAYS screaming. We can give each other advice on how to resolve disagreements with our SO when neither of our discipline strategies are panning out and we fight because we are frustrated. Instead of doing a typical "getting to know you" POTD, when it is your day you can vent about all the ways you doubt yourself as a parent and how you worry you are screwing your kid up. When one of us posts a "What new skills has your LO mastered?" post noone will feel bad because we will ALL be saying "I just want him to quit biting me" and the like.

I do not begrudge anyone their brag posts or their childrearing success stories but I get depressed hearing about the kids that know their colors and are potty training and all the moms teaching Spanish and cooking all organic meals. I feel like a total screw-up. It helps me to joke about my kid being on the B team.

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i will!!! i think my daugher is a genius compared to me...but i dont think shes above average. she might do some things other kids dont do but then theres things shes not even close to doing and kids her age have been doing them for months!

Haha WTG Ashely. BTW you're kid isn't on the B team, he'll kick those tofu eating, organic goats milk drinking wussies asses (I was referring to my kid before anyone flips. He's not advanced in any way though and I let him have French fries from a chipper last week. All he did was say chips for a half hour. Haha)

I'll join!! I think DS likes Moose & Zee better than mom and dad, he gets juice, can't sign, doesn't know colors/Spanish/ or how to cook organic foods. He says a few words but not when asked. And he's no where near ready to potty on his own!
Sometimes I feel like the worst mom ever, then DH reminds me that hookers have kids...DS has to be doing better than those kids!

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ValerieWifey to Mike 1.13.06Mommy to Dillan Oliver 8.01.09 & Raegan Piper 5.22.12Both of my kids were 5 days late, but worth the wait!

I'll match your not talking and RAISE you a not walking either!!!!! He is proficient at cruising and crawling but refuses to let go and walk. But he IS the cutest damn baby. Oh, I forgot - while he does sleep through the night, he seems to think that night automatically ends somewhere around 5:30.

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